Therefore, the Ex-Colored Man would hardly be treated as a black boy, if it were not for him and for people around him being told that he is not white. After this moment of revelation and before he decides to pass for white, the narrator acquires a new vision of the situation of black people in the United States. ... This with the situation of black people contributes to the narrator's decision of establishing his identity as a colored person with honor and dignity, before choosing, later on the novel, to pass for white. ... He is tired of humiliation and shame and wants to be successful...

• Word Count: 977
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

But how can we overcome discrimination while the forces that protect us are one of the major causes? ... Department of Justice report stated that in 1999, African Americans were 20% more likely to be stopped than white Americans, and police were more than twice as likely to search the car of an African American or Hispanic driver than a white driver. ... Of the nearly 12,000 full-time state court judges across the country, only 465 were African American, and 150 were Latino in 1991. In a 2000 Census, the percentage of judges who were white calculate to 83.2%, 8.8% were African American, and Hi...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The laws" intent was to afford underprivileged minority groups" equal opportunities for employment that were available to the white male. ... We are now seeing more women, white and black primarily, black men and even the American native Indian in the American workplace. Although this has attributed to the overall growth in achieving a more diverse workplace, it is not the free ticket for minorities to enter into the workplace in any area of work. Certain standards must be met before affirmative action can ever play a role in determining who is hired. ... The law school is ____ up to for...

• Word Count: 1980
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The immigrants were ready to let go of their ties to Ireland, "choose between Ireland and South Carolina, we say South Carolina forever". ... Ignatiev gave other examples where the Catholic Church was influential in convincing the immigrants that loyalty to America came before loyalty to Ireland. ... The Democratic Party also seemed more sympathetic to the Irish's concern that free blacks would take their jobs. ... The Irish-based labor unions at first fought amongst themselves and other whites such as the Germans but once the freed blacks began to look for work, they became a threa...

• Word Count: 1854
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Playing on his slave's ignorance, a white slave owner gives the freed slave not the promised valley "Bottom" land, but hilly land that he claims is "the bottom of heaven (Morrison 5)." ... After even the skinniest of immigrants is chosen before him, Jude finds the need for another person to recognize him and his manhood and to share in the pain a racist society has burdened him with. ... Early in life Sula and Nel discover their status as the Other, understanding that "they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden them (52)." ... The bargeman's im...

• Word Count: 1501
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Because the apartheid legislation was leading to a society where blacks were seen inferior while whites were seen superior. ... Namely they had segregated neighborhoods, black people were forcibly removed from their homes and were put in a separated area from whites. ... Earlier, before the Bantu system was legislated in the country, many African schools were maintaining by different promoters and by some state help. ... But after Bantu educational system took place in the country, the promoters chose to terminate these schools, because the system they had before was not working anymore. ... T...

• Word Count: 2834
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate